Bleu Robotics has raised a €5 million pre-seed round to expand its factory humanoid-robot software, first reported by Roboticsandautomationnews. The company says the software can teach a robot a new task from as few as ten operator demonstrations; Bleu’s goal is to reduce the full deployment process to one hour or less.
The round was co-led by Contrarian Ventures and OVNI Capital, with participation from Kvanted, WEPA Ventures, Motier Ventures and Charlie Songhurst. Bleu plans to use the funding to grow its team and scale the software across industries.
There were 5 million industrial robots operating globally in 2025, according to the International Federation of Robotics. Those robots are built to repeat fixed tasks and cannot adapt to the high-mix, low-volume production common in modern manufacturing, leaving that work to human workers.
Bleu’s abductive-learning model infers the likely intent behind an operator’s demonstration, including the task’s goal and constraints. It learns new tasks from as few as ten demonstrations, without relying on large task-specific datasets; the company says the approach preserves explainability for industrial safety and the 99%+ accuracy production lines demand.
Operators teach the software directly at a workstation using Bleu’s handheld grippers, which remove the need for coding. The software can be plugged into any humanoid platform, and the same robot can be retrained as production needs change or moved to another site.
The contrast is between a large number of robots built for repetition and modern manufacturing that calls for adaptation across changing production runs. Bleu is already working with two major industrial companies and building partnerships with robot distributors.